Beyond Trump: Trudeau must try to set new directions for G6 at summit

The PM and other pro-trade nations should try to protect the highly valuable rules-based multilateral trading system while at the same time addressing the worst of globalization.

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to visit Canada for the first time since becoming president this weekend to attend the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Que., hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right. German federal government photograph by Denzel

OTTAWA—Jeffrey Sachs, the internationally respected American economist, isn’t mincing words in the wake of United States President Donald Trump’s declaration of a trade war against U.S. allies and foes alike.

Unless Trudeau plans to be out on these streets, fighting against police brutality or in cabinet drafting legislation to curb police powers, his, and all the other white voices of his ilk, have no merit here.

'I do agree that things need to be implemented as quickly as possible. We could've done this a lot sooner. The good news is that we’re doing it now and announcing it today,' says Transport Minister Marc Garneau.